readx;? Li Erniu was relieved to see that the casualties of his subordinates were not large, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to replenish ammunition, check their guns, and prepare for another attack by the Japanese army. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Japanese artillery shells on the position fell again, this time the shelling time was extended, and the dust on the top of the anti-artillery hole kept falling. Li Erniu and his subordinates didn't pay attention to it at all, but were just preparing for battle in an orderly manner.

Half an hour later, the density of Japanese artillery shells decreased, and Li Erniu rushed to the position with his men again. This time, the position was seriously damaged by the Japanese artillery torch fortifications, and the barbed wire fence and roadblocks in front of the position were even more damaged. Seeing this situation, Li Erniu ordered his subordinates to bring a few boxes of grenades to each platoon.

The Japanese offensive began again, and the process was almost the same, and when advancing to within two hundred meters, the shelling stopped, and the Japanese heavy machine guns and weapons in the hands of the infantry began to fire. However, there is one change, that is, the grenades of the grenadiers are more targeted, and several bunkers on the position are taken care of.

This time, when the Japanese advanced to a distance of 150 meters from the position, Li Erniu gave the order to open fire. The Japanese grenadiers also turned to light machine gun positions, and the bunker where the heavy machine guns were located was smoke-bombed by mortars to block the view. The defenders really didn't encounter this style of play, and the effect of the heavy machine guns was greatly reduced by the influence of smoke grenades. And the light machine guns also lost several units under the blow of the Japanese grenadiers.

As soon as the firepower on the positions weakened, the Japanese had a chance, as if the barricades and barbed wire had been destroyed. The Japanese at this time launched a charge against the defending positions. When the smoke on the position dispersed somewhat, Li Erniu found that the Japanese army was only thirty meters away from the position, and Li Erniu shouted: "Throw grenades!"

The fighters on the position put down their rifles, grabbed grenades, and threw them at the Japanese troops who rushed up. The heavy machine guns and the remaining light machine guns also fired frantically at the Japanese again. Thirty meters was too close, and the Japanese rushed to the position amid a rain of bullets and the explosion of grenades. Li Erniu saw that the Japanese army was about to rush to the position, and shouted: "Brothers, fight with Little Japan!" After shouting, he took the lead and jumped out of the trench.

The company commander jumped out of the trench, and the fighters raised their rifles with bayonets on them, or drew broadswords from their backs, and also jumped out of the trenches. The officers and men of the first company rushed forward without hesitation towards the Japanese soldiers who rushed up, and the gray uniforms and yellow uniforms suddenly mixed together. The weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the first company did not suffer a loss, but they suffered a loss because there was still a gap with the Japanese army in terms of stabbing technology.

But the officers and men of the first company fought with the ruthlessness of the Sichuan army, and everyone ignored death, even if they were stabbed in the vital point, they had to hug the soldiers of the little Japanese and pull the grenade before they died. The 106th Division must have been only a second-rate division after all, and the soldiers were not as fierce and fearless as the First Division.

There was one who took the lead, and more and more retreated, and finally the remaining more than 200 Japanese soldiers could not resist it and retreated. After the Japanese retreated, almost no one in the company could still stand on the position. Li Erniu was also pierced with a hole in his thigh. This time, more than 30 officers and men of the entire company were still alive, and more than 20 people were seriously injured.

When Zhang Yu, the commander of the second battalion, came up with reinforcements from the second company, Li Daniu said to Zhang Yu: "Battalion commander, the position is still in the hands of the first company," and he fainted. The commander of the second battalion hurriedly asked people to carry down the seriously wounded of the first company for rescue, and the lightly wounded also withdrew to the city for repair. He took the second company to repair the position and prepare for battle.

This battle was also a serious blow to the morale of the Japanese 111th Brigade. The brigade commander Matsushiro came to the attacking wing with a blue face, slapped the wing commander a few times, and executed several soldiers who took the lead in escaping. However, Matsushiro knew that his morale had been lost, so he did not organize another attack.

The next day, when Junrokuro Matsuura, commander of the 106th Division, arrived outside Tongcheng with the 136th Brigade and the rest of the division, Matsushitoro came to the commander of Junrokuro Matsuura's division and gave a detailed report to Junrokuro Matsuura on yesterday's battle. Junrokuro Matsuura didn't blame Matsushiro much, but asked for some details of the battle.

In the end, Junrokuro Matsuura said: "Matsushita-kun, don't take the defeat too seriously, we have powerful artillery fire, these artillery fire is enough to destroy the defense line of the Shina, let's use artillery fire to destroy the defense line of the Shina, and then the warriors of the empire just need to go up and catch those stunned ducks." ”

Junrokuro Matsuura's confidence in saying this came from the artillery wing of his own division. Because its own division was specially strengthened before it left the Japanese mainland, its own artillery wing now has a total of 54 artillery pieces, including 24 105-caliber howitzers. A heavy mortar brigade was also strengthened, with twenty-four 150-caliber heavy mortars.

Junrokuro Matsuura and several of his men climbed a high ground, and after observing the defensive site of Kiritsu with binoculars for a while, he ordered the artillery wing to shell mainly the city walls, and the heavy mortar brigade to shell the positions outside the city with the mountain artillery of the brigade. There was no need for infantry to attack before completely destroying the positions of the China.

With this order, the artillery wing and heavy mortar brigade of the 106th Division were busy at the same time, and an hour later, the Japanese artillery bombardment began. Fifty-four artillery pieces aimed at the walls and heads of Tongcheng were bombarded, but this shelling hit the 571st Regiment coldly.

Zheng Daodong, the commander of the 571st Regiment, thought that the Japanese army would not attack the head of Tongcheng until it captured the position outside the city, so when the Japanese shells fell on the city, the officers and men of the third battalion were suddenly drowned in the smoke and fire. Yu Ren'an, the commander of the third battalion, hurriedly commanded the soldiers to retreat downward.

Nearly 100 officers and men of the three battalions fell under Japanese artillery fire, and several heavy machine guns were damaged by the heavy machine guns arranged at the head of the city. The 571st Regiment suffered a big loss, and the soldiers from the regiment commander Zheng Daodong to the 3rd Battalion hated Little Japan to the core. On the position of the second battalion outside the city, the power of the Japanese army's 150 mortars was not small, except for a few heavy machine gun bunkers that had not been greatly damaged, the trenches and sandbags were basically destroyed.

The Japanese artillery bombardment lasted for a day, but this day was only an artillery bombardment, and no infantry launched an attack, but the officers and men of the 571st Regiment were a little confused. After a day of continuous shelling, the bunker outside the city could not withstand this bombardment and collapsed. When the anti-artillery hole also collapsed and more than a dozen soldiers were lost, the position outside the city could no longer be held, and the regiment commander Zheng Daodong could only order the second battalion to abandon the position outside the city and withdraw to the city.

The next morning, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, commander of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, and a group of his men stood on the high ground of yesterday again, and Junrokuro Matsuura once again looked in the direction of Kiritsu with a telescope. In the telescope, the defenders' positions outside Tongcheng were in ruins, and there were no defenders. However, the walls of Tongcheng are still there, but there are some more gaps and bullet marks. For such an effect, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura was quite satisfied.

Matsuura Junrokuro said to his subordinates: "The artillery of the empire is something that the people of China cannot resist, and today we will continue to bombard the walls of Tongcheng, I believe that soon the people of China and the city walls will be unable to support them, and then the warriors of the empire will be able to easily occupy the city in front of them." As soon as Junrokuro Matsuura finished speaking, Matsushitoro beside him flattered and said: "Your Excellency the division commander is worthy of being a top student of the Imperial Army University, and the Shina army is not the opponent of His Excellency the division commander at all. ”

Under the compliment of everyone, Junrokuro Matsuura returned to the command room with a smile on his face. On this day, all the artillery fire of the Japanese army fell on the wall of Tongcheng, and in the afternoon, the city wall finally could not withstand so much artillery fire and collapsed a section of dozens of meters. After a subordinate reported the situation to Junrokuro Matsuura, Junrokuro Matsuura excitedly called out to Matsushitoro, and then said, "Matsushita-kun, now you can let the warriors of the empire catch those stunned ducks." Matsushitoro replied, "Yes, Your Excellency the Division Commander." I immediately organized the troops to attack. ”

After Matsushiro returned to the 111th Brigade, he immediately gave the order to attack the wing commander of the 113th Wing, Hazhong Seido Osa. In the first day of the attack, the 113th Wing almost lost a large number of troops, and Ye Zhongshengdao received the order to attack and immediately sent the other two brigades to attack Tongcheng. More than 2,000 Japanese troops lined up in a dense formation, strode towards the city wall of Tongcheng, and when they rushed to only more than 200 meters away from the city wall, there was no movement in the city wall, and the attacking Japanese army became bold, straightened up and began to charge.

As soon as the Japanese army entered the range of 200 meters, Chinese soldiers suddenly emerged from the ruins of the city wall, and then light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and even grenadiers and mortars began to fire at the attacking Japanese troops, and the unsuspecting Japanese troops fell down one by one. Such a dense attacking team brought the power of the mortar to the best effect, and the number of shells was small, but they all exploded in the crowd, and a single shell made small Japan fall a large area.

The counterattack of the squadron made Matsushiro who was standing on the position watching the battle stunned, and he couldn't understand how could there still be so many soldiers in this bombed ruins under such a powerful artillery fire of the empire? How could there still be such dense firepower, even mortars? After all, the Japanese army must have an absolute advantage in numbers, and the gap in the city wall was too big, and the 571st Regiment tried its best but could not stop the Japanese charge.

When the Japanese army rushed into the Tongcheng city wall, the soldiers of the 571st Regiment and the Japanese soldiers started a hand-to-hand battle, and at this time, even the regiment commander Zheng Daodong waved a 38-type rifle with a bayonet on it, and the Japanese army was in close contact. The officers and men of the 571st Regiment faced the superior Japanese army and fought with them fearlessly, and the seriously wounded soldiers continued to pull grenades and die with the Japanese army. When the two Japanese brigades were completely lost, the remaining 200 or 300 men fled back to their positions desperately, and at this time there were less than 100 officers and men of the 571st Regiment still standing on the battlefield.